What are your thoughts on 4chan?
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4chan is usually pretty accepting of bisexuality as long as you're in the closet and only want to bang feminine guys.
Coreda
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It was amusing seeing gaming side get jealous a while back when 4chan made and presented presents to Gabe and Iwata. Many couldn't reconcile their views of the board with the gestures, and decided to make their own (which was great, too). There's a lot of uncredited, re-posted content that originates from there.
Catrollinginthewind
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I'm sure the same people saying 4Chan is awful are the same people quick to make death jokes in a thread. Please quit being hypocrites.
Zeyphersan
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It was great when I was in high school and generally a shithead
Now it's insufferable
Now it's insufferable
I'm none these and I love it.
Catrollinginthewind
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SolidChamp
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It scares me so I don't go there.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
I avoid 4chan like the plague.
Fahrenheit
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I like it, sure some awful things get posted but you can't hold a few peoples actions against all.
The less popular boards are great, /o/, /k/, /ck/, lot of good niche conversations to be had. Even on /v/ you can get good threads about games that don't get a lot of attention
The less popular boards are great, /o/, /k/, /ck/, lot of good niche conversations to be had. Even on /v/ you can get good threads about games that don't get a lot of attention
I think the anonymity is actually the interesting part of it all.
People say what they think without holding back. Of course this results in a lot of shitposting and namecalling. Or worse. It's inevitable. Certainly not OK with some of the things I've seen there, but that doesn't keep me from coming back. Human curiosity, I guess.
In fact, it's probably the safest place to share a really awkward story or something you would never tell anyone else. You don't know anyone there. There's no reason to be nice. No reason to withhold details or lie about something. You can ask the most fucked up question there and, even if a lot of people will reply with ridiculous answers, you're bound to get some serious answers. Always happens.
Is it the cesspit of the internet? Probably. But there's a reason it exists. And a reason so many people visit it.
People say what they think without holding back. Of course this results in a lot of shitposting and namecalling. Or worse. It's inevitable. Certainly not OK with some of the things I've seen there, but that doesn't keep me from coming back. Human curiosity, I guess.
In fact, it's probably the safest place to share a really awkward story or something you would never tell anyone else. You don't know anyone there. There's no reason to be nice. No reason to withhold details or lie about something. You can ask the most fucked up question there and, even if a lot of people will reply with ridiculous answers, you're bound to get some serious answers. Always happens.
Is it the cesspit of the internet? Probably. But there's a reason it exists. And a reason so many people visit it.
They're all the stupid edgy teenage board.
edgy teenage papercraft board.
dapperbandit
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If you can stand the "f" word which is just used in any and every situation across all boards, it's not a bad place to be actually.
Even /pol/. In terms of "board culture", /pol/ and the /lgbt/ board are actually friendly neighbours. To the extent that this exists
Yep, every single one. Even /ck/ and /out/. There's nothing more edgy than cooking and camping.
edgy teenage cooking board
I'm not white, and I think 4chan is entertaining. Yeah, it has its share of genuinely bitter assholes. That comes with the anonymity. But the freewheeling culture also leads to the only funny memes on the internet. It's definitely not for the sensitive, though, and I'm glad moderated places like GAF exist.
I go to GAF for civilized discussions. I go to 4chan for the anarchic stupidity.
Great for discussion, as a post-identity site with a strong culture of thread and board introversion. Its reputation has attracted a younger and/or dumber crowd on some boards who mistake "post-identity" for "all my identity", and its essential counterculturalism is built on a very punk-via-'90s-Japan, disaffected-lower-middle-class "mainstream culture is just as shit as us" which often clashes loudly and fractitiously with the modern trend toward relatively class-agnostic "we're just as good as anyone else like us" movements.
It doesn't help that in the years since its founding, the English-speaking far right has done a lot of work pushing reaction as a form of revolution.
It doesn't help that in the years since its founding, the English-speaking far right has done a lot of work pushing reaction as a form of revolution.
pants
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I used to post on the chans a lot. It's a fine community as long as you stay away from /b/ and the /mu/ nutbags. Once you get used to the fact that no one takes anything seriously (and if this posting style works for you) its pretty neat.
I stopped posting there because I grew up and needed a bit more substance in my reading and conversational partners.
I stopped posting there because I grew up and needed a bit more substance in my reading and conversational partners.
Yeah, I dunno what I'm doing on GAF either lol
I recognize these words but they mean nothing to me.
FO-totality
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4chan is a cesspool but it's my little cesspool and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Some of the boards are really good though (/a/, /sp/, /x/, etc. but pretty much any of them minus /b/ and /pol/ and the porn-oriented boards). Some really funny stuff spawns on 4chan and there are some legitimately insightful posters and content on the more subject-oriented boards.
Some of the boards are really good though (/a/, /sp/, /x/, etc. but pretty much any of them minus /b/ and /pol/ and the porn-oriented boards). Some really funny stuff spawns on 4chan and there are some legitimately insightful posters and content on the more subject-oriented boards.
pants
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>goes to the most vile threads in the most vile subforums
>brands entire breadth of the chan domain
>does not realize the irony, since a lot of people do the same for GAF
Indeed. I had a lot of laughs on there, but I also cringed at a lot of the stuff on there.
EDIT: Off Topic a bit, but I used to check out the misc a bit as well. I dont anymore because a lot of it is recycled memes and the same shit all the time (also misc is strong misogynistic, never read anything about any actual events) The only time I bother to read a thread is if its MSPaint or a story time thread.
but those are by far the most consistently high quality and arguably most civil boards
Go in any /gif/ thread where someone has posted a gif of a black pornstar.
UltraGunner
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I liked it before the whole "Tortanic" incident and before Stormfront turned it into a recruitment center
ginger ninja
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/gif/ can be pretty...fun
that's actually a pretty low amount of racism compared to the other boards
Tortanic was great but kind of a turning point (along with Gone Home). It was really funny because it was bashing on a shitty game, but it ended up in a lot of people thinking it was really funny for sexist/homophobic reasons and thus trying to apply that same logic to everything.
Angsty college kids through freeters who generally want to tear everything down and rebuild it better create a subculture where who you are can never be used against you.
In the meantime, the outside world separates into team "tear it all down and leave it torn down, who i am will give me an advantage in the ruins" and team "by defining myself as 'normal, except x', i can leverage existing power structures to make life better for x".
Neither of these fit well in the subculture, but angsty teens and rejects from team A can be relied on to not read past the "tear it all down" part and try to move in.
spindashing
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I used to hang around /vp/. I learned more about IV breeding/EV training there.
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
It's fun. The Breaking Bad threads on /tv/ were some of the funniest things I've read on the internet.
I can't hate it. 4chan as a hive mind did a lot of shit but..it is 4chan, you know? when you type in the address you know what to expect.
butyeah, the new generation of people on 4chan is shit. like really, they do not know when to stop and do not now how to behave. I hate those people. Can I have my 2004/2005 4chan back?
butyeah, the new generation of people on 4chan is shit. like really, they do not know when to stop and do not now how to behave. I hate those people. Can I have my 2004/2005 4chan back?
My point is that it completely derails the entire thread and the OP can't actually get what he came to /gif/ for.
Tortanic destroyed any chance of /v/ being any good going forward. It invited a bunch of kids over that want every single game released to be terrible that they can shitpost endlessly about how terrible it is and get some /b/esque laughs out of it. Which has lead to anons pushing the idea that every game released IS shit so they can do that.
/v/ as a whole doesn't really have an atmosphere conducive to bringing people who actually play games together to discuss, every thread is ether shit surrounding video games or anons shitposting about a game they think people will like. Nobody there really plays games anymore outside of their occasional pirated indie game. /vg/ is a lot better on the whole imo.
striferser
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It's okay. There's the good, the bad, and the ugly
I mean, Mamare Tono (author of log horizon and Maou Yuusha) did AMA in 4chan twice. Kinda cool.
And also they did some cool act like sending gift to Iwata, and give shit to those who pirate the witcher 2.
Of course there's also place where they act like shit.
I mean, Mamare Tono (author of log horizon and Maou Yuusha) did AMA in 4chan twice. Kinda cool.
And also they did some cool act like sending gift to Iwata, and give shit to those who pirate the witcher 2.
Of course there's also place where they act like shit.
ChawlieTheFair
pip pip cheerio you slags!
TBH I hate the format, but there is a subreddit for the best of 4chan and I go to that often 
Funny stuff.
Funny stuff.
Francokid1
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They can organize surprisingly fast. I still remember that they sent Iwata a get well card, while folks here were still arguing and hoping that he would resign.
TBH I hate the format, but there is a subreddit for the best of 4chan and I go to that often
Funny stuff.
Reddit's format is almost just as bad...
ChawlieTheFair
pip pip cheerio you slags!
To you duder.
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